I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco in Jun 2008
Interview
First a phone interview. Followed by 7 people interview 1:1 . There were questions about networking, previous company projects about design, programming questions.
The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cisco in Mar 2012
Interview
The interview consisted of two technical and one HR round. First round was just a background check of the basic programming knowledge mainly all about c programming and datastructures. Second round included just one or two questions but were tricky. Finally the HR round which was just similar to other formal interviews